Would be making his first career start ... played in 11 games last season with a high of nine minutes against The College of New Jersey on Jan. 8 ... on the team's trip to Spain in September, averaged 33 minutes, 9.8 points, four assists, 3.8 rebounds per game.

5 • T.J. Bray • G • Jr. • 6-5 • New Berlin, Wis.

Second season as team's point guard ...had 119 assists last season, the most for any Princeton player since 2001 ... shot .540 (40-74) over the last 15 games last season ... did not play on the Spain trip due to injury ... had only four negative assist-to-turnover ratio games last season out of 31 played ... team's
second-leading rebounder last season at 4.6 rpg ... had nine double-digit scoring games last season.

24 • Will Barrett • F • Jr. • 6-10 • Hartsville, Pa.

Will be seeing first game action since sustaining a foot injury on Nov. 30 of last year against Lafayette ... on the Spain trip, averaged 32 minutes, 12.3 points, 10.3 rebounds per game ... started the first four games of last season and had two starts during Ivy play in 2011 for career's only six starts.

34 • Ian Hummer • F • Sr. • 6-7 • Vienna, Va.

First-team
All-Ivy League 2012 ... preseason pick for Ivy Player of the Year by most outside publications; would be Princeton's first Ivy POY since 1999 (Brian Earl '99) ... scored 515 points this season, the most in a
single season in the program in 40 years since former NBA player Brian
Taylor in 1972 (676) ... scored in double figures in 29 of 32 games
last season ... shot .821 (46-56) from the free-throw line over the last 12 games of last season
after shooting .598 (70-117) over the first 20 games ... enters the season
13th on Princeton career
scoring list at 1,170 points (12th place is at 1,207 points) ... had
seven 20+-point games last season.

44 • Brendan Connolly • C • Sr. • 6-11 • Brentwood, Tenn.

Started the last 10 and first six games of last season ... last season was his second straight year of starting at least half the games ... reached double digits in scoring in seven of the last 17 contests of last season ... shot .677 (21-31) from the field over the last six games of last season.

Tonight's top notes:

Princeton was picked first in the Ivy League preseason poll, getting 16 of 17 first-place votes out of the pool of two media members from each of the eight Ivy markets and one national writer.

Princeton is aiming for its fourth straight 20-win season, which would be a first since 1999. A fourth straight postseason appearance would be the first such time since 2002.
Princeton is looking for double-digit Ivy League wins in four straight years for the first time since 2004.

Princeton returns three starters, including senior center Brendan Connolly, senior forward Ian Hummer, and junior guard T.J. Bray. In addition, the Tigers get back junior forward Will Barrett, who started four of the eight games in which he played last season before suffering a foot injury, and senior forward Mack Darrow started 16 games last season as well.

Princeton returns 11 players who saw game action last season, including five of the seven players who played in all 32 games last season.

Hummer, a first-team All-Ivy League pick last season who has been picked by some outside publications as the favorite for Ivy League Player of the Year, would be the first Ivy League Player of the Year since Brian Earl in 1999.

Hummer is 13th on the Princeton career scoring list (1,170) and would move up to second (1,550) if he scores as many points as he did his junior year (515).

If Hummer duplicated his junior-season point total, he would reach 1,685 points, putting him in 13th place on the all-time Ivy League list. In the last 10 seasons, only Cornell’s Ryan Wittman (2,028) has reached the 1,600-point mark in the Ivy League.

Hummer last season had more points (515) than any Tiger since Brian Taylor in 1972 (676).

If Hummer reaches second on the school scoring list, the No. 2 spot to Bill Bradley ’65 would change twice in two years after staying the same for 21 years.

After wins against Rutgers the last two years and Florida State last year, Princeton is looking to defeat a major-conference opponent in three consecutive seasons for the first time since the 1999-2000 season. The Tigers have Rutgers and Syracuse on this year's schedule.

Princeton returns 66 percent of its points from last season, even after losing the program’s second-leading all-time scorer, Douglas Davis ’12.

Returning members of the team shot .483 from the field last year, better than the team’s overall percentage of .462 last season.

Princeton has won 17 straight Ivy League games at home, the most since the team won 26 in a row from 1996-99.

Princeton will have its first five Ivy League games at home for the second time in three years. In 2011, the Tigers were able to use the 5-0 start toward a 12-2 Ivy finish.

A year ago, Princeton started with five straight Ivy games on the road and went 2-3 over that stretch. Princeton won 8 of 9 to close the Ivy season.

Today's game is the earliest start to the regular season in program history. The only other game on Nov. 10 or earlier was on Nov. 10, 2006 against Loyola (Ill.), which started at 5:30 p.m., making today's game the earliest start to a season.

Princeton played a program-record 32 games last season for the second straight year, making the quarterfinal of the College Basketball Invitational last season and the Round of 64 of the NCAA Tournament in 2011.

This year's seniors, with 67 wins, can
chase the winningest classes ever in program history: 1992 (85), 1998
(89), 2000 (92) and 1999 (95). The Class of 1982 was the program's first
class with four-year players.

This will be Princeton's first trip to Buffalo since the 1960-61 season, playing a holiday tournament at the Buffalo Memorial Auditorium against Canisius (loss) and Connecticut (win). The team's only other trip to Buffalo was to play against the Bulls on Jan. 4, 1926, a 25-23 loss.

Princeton will be playing three MAC teams this season, all in the MAC East, including Akron, Kent State, and Buffalo. The teams were chosen second through fourth, in that order in the East Division in the MAC preseason poll.

This will be the second time in four years that Princeton has opened on the road against a MAC opponent after defeating Central Michigan 71-68 on Nov. 14, 2009. None of the current Tigers have lost to a MAC foe, winning that game and defeating Buffalo in Jadwin Gym last season.

Nearly 43 percent of the team's points last season were scored by members of the Class of 2013, including Ian Hummer (515), Mack Darrow (223) and Brendan Connolly (181).

At 20 victories, Mitch Henderson '98 was Princeton's winningest first-year
head coach since Bill Carmody went 24-4 in 1996-97. Henderson was a
junior on that team.

Princeton's 465 assists last season are the most since the 1999-2000 Tigers set the program record
at 505. The stat began being kept in the mid-1970s.

Against Buffalo:

Princeton and Buffalo had their only recent meeting on Nov. 19, 2011 at Jadwin Gym. The Tigers were up by as many as 25 points with less than two minutes to go in the first half, but Buffalo chipped away and got as close as seven points in the game's final minute.

Four of Princeton's five probable starters in the rematch also started last year's game, with Douglas Davis '12 as the only non-returner. For Buffalo, only two of the Bulls' starters return in juniors Javon McCrea and Jarod Oldham. McCrea had a game-high 19 points.

Ian Hummer had a double-double against the Bulls last season, getting 18 points and 12 rebounds. Davis had 16 points.

Princeton held Buffalo to 20 percent shooting in the first half last season en route to the 25-point lead. The Tigers shot 43.3 percent before the break. It was a reversal in the second half, with Princeton shooting 26.3 percent and Buffalo 46.7 percent.

Princeton and Buffalo were even on the glass in last season's meeting, 40-40. Princeton had 10 second-chance points on its eight offensive boards, while despite 11 offensive rebounds for the Bulls, Buffalo had just seven second-chance points.

Princeton and Buffalo each have one Englishman (Edo Lawrence for Princeton, Raphell Thomas-Edwards for Buffalo), one person from Tulsa, Okla. (Clay Wilson for Princeton, Cameron Downing for Buffalo) and one from the Binghamton, N.Y., area (Bobby Garbade for Princeton, Richie Sebuharara for Buffalo).

Milestones:

Ian Hummer is chipping away at the
big gap between where he stands on the Princeton scoring list (13th,
1,170) and 12th place, held by Steve Goodrich
'98 (1,207).

Ian Hummer is on pace to stand second in
career scoring and career field goals in program history, behind only
Bill Bradley '65, by the end of this season.
Bradley was a teammate of
Ian Hummer's father Ed Hummer '67 for one varsity season, the run to the
NCAA national semifinal in 1965.

Henderson,
who played in three NCAA Tournaments for Princeton, spent 11 years at
Northwestern under one of his former coaches at Princeton, Bill Carmody,
as an assistant coach.

Princeton
is tied for second with Kansas, and behind only North Carolina, in alumni as active Division I head
coaches. Eight Tar Heels are roaming the sidelines, while six Jayhawks and these six Tigers are
doing so: Thompson III '88 (Georgetown), Scott '87 (Denver), Johnson
'97 (Fairfield), Henderson '98 (Princeton), Chris Mooney '94 (Richmond)
and Craig Robinson '83 (Oregon State).

On Buffalo: The Bulls return one of their top five scorers from last season inJavon McCrea (14.7 ppg), who was second on the team in scoring behind Mitchell Watt (16.3 ppg) ... the Bulls outrebounded opponents 40.2 rpg to 33.3 rpg last season but lose two of their top three rebounders in Watt (7.5 rpg) and Dave Barnett (5.3 ppg); McCrea was second on the team in rebounding at 6.9 rpg ... Watt was the 2012 MAC Player of the Year, McCrea was also first-team All-MAC ... the Bulls have not been to the NCAA Tournament since coming to Division I in 1991-92 ... Buffalo finished 20-11 overall and 12-4 in the MAC last season, advancing to the MAC semifinals before losing 77-74 to Ohio, which went on to advance to the NCAA Sweet 16 before losing in OT to North Carolina ... Buffalo played in the CollegeInsider.com Postseason Tournament last season, winning a Round-of-32 game before losing to Oakland.

Individual Notes

3 • Clay Wilson • G • 6-3 • So.
Scored 10 points in each of the team's last two games in Spain ... saw limited action last season, playing in 11 games and netting two field goals ... averaged 27.8 points per
game as
a senior in high school, earning statewide 3A player of the year honors
in Oklahoma.

4 • Denton Koon • F • 6-8 • So.Only freshman to play in all 32 games last season ... had six double-digit scoring games last season ... had a rebound in 26 of the final 27 games last season ... had 10 games of five rebounds or more ... started three of the team's four games in Spain, scoring 13 points in six minutes in the game he did not start.

5 • T.J. Bray • G • 6-5 • Jr.
Entering his second season as Princeton's starting point guard ... did not see game action on the Spain trip due to injury ... scored double-digit points in nine of the final 22 games last season ... grabbed as many as eight rebounds in a game on four occasions last season ... had three games last season with as many as seven assists and had at least one assist in every game last season.

11 • Brian Fabrizius (fah-BREE-zee-us) • F • 6-11 • So.
Saw limited action last season, playing in six games ... hit one of the two shots he tried last season, a 3-pointer at Dartmouth ... had a postgraduate year at Kimball Union Academy in New Hampshire after spending high school at Hersey High in Arlington Heights, Ill.

13 • Mike Washington Jr. • G • 6-3 • Fr.
Averaged 17.1 points per game for his career while scoring 1,526 points at Oak Harbor High outside Seattle ... lettered three years as a football receiver ... father was his coach in high school.21 • Mack Darrow (DAIR-oh) • F • 6-9 • Sr.
Played in all 32 games last season, including a stretch of 16 games in which he started ... had eight double-digit scoring games last season ... shot .538 during the postseason against Evansville and Pittsburgh ... had four games last season with as many as five assists, including a six-assist game at Evansville.

22 • Chris Clement (CLEM-ent) • G • 6-2 • Jr.A start Saturday would be the first of his career ... has seen limited action over his first two seasons while playing behind Douglas Davis '12 ... scored in two games last season, making a 3-pointer against West Alabama and a field goal against Brown.

24 • Will Barrett • F • 6-10 • Jr.
Will make his return to the team after suffering a foot injury last Nov. 30 and missing the rest of the season ... made two starts as a sophomore in 2010-11 and four more starts in his abbreviated season last year ... played 28-38 minutes in each game during the Spain trip, getting as many as 16 points and 13 rebounds

30 • Hans Brase • F • 6-8 • Fr.Averaged 14 points, nine rebounds per game for the Hill School in Pennsylvania ... played the last two years there after playing at the Gaston Day School in North Carolina ... both parents are alumni of the University of Goettingen in Germany.

32 • Daniel Edwards • F • 6-8 • Jr.
Played in eight games last season ... made his only two field-goal tries, a 2-pointer against The College of New Jersey and a 3-pointer against Dartmouth.

33 • Edo Lawrence • C • 7-1 • Fr.
First name is Edward, nickname rhymes with "meadow" ... likely the tallest player in program history at 7-foot-1 ... came to the U.S. in 2010 and prepped at the Canterbury School in Connecticut.

34 • Ian Hummer • F • 6-7 • Sr.
First-team All-Ivy League 2012, second-team All-Ivy League in 2011 ... has started every game the last two seasons except for senior night in 2011 ... has improved his freethrow shooting annually from season to season ... has also increased his points and rebounds in each season ... added three-point shooting to his skill set last season, making 19 of 60 (.317) last season after not trying one in his first two seasons ... had 101 assists last season, 40 more than he had as a sophomore ... father Ed was a sophomore on the 1965 Final Four team with Bill Bradley '65 and uncle John played six seasons in the NBA, including his first three seasons in Buffalo for the Braves.

40 • Bobby Garbade (gar-BAYED) • C • 6-11 • Fr.
Played in nine games in his rookie season ... went 3 of 5 from the field ... scored in two games, against The College of New Jersey (four points) and Brown (two).